The best microscope photography

[phoenix64]

Wired magazine has an article on Nikon's Small World photomicrography competition, featuring the winners all the way back to 1977. This year's winner:



There are also links to Nikon's gallery of all the winners and honorable mentions. For me one of the slightly unexpected neat things about this was the fact that this is a truly international competition, and I loved seeing all the different facilities the various scientist photographers were from.

Comments

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooh. That's gorgeous! And the other ones, too -- some of them made me gasp! I *love* the pleurosigma. And the sowthistle, and the soap film, and, and...

Thank you for sharing. :)

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

I can't even begin to share all my favorite ones, but the crystallized chemicals often tend to end up being my favorites. The insects can be a little off-putting, but there's one of a moth's proboscis that's really quite lovely. And the nerve cells are just, wow, look at that energy.